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Video recordings of all the presentations and discussion at the DDDWG Metadata Workshop in Rovinj are now available on the web at http://www.iucr.org/resources/data/dddw ... j-workshop

This is just a brief note to remind subscribers about the Workshop this weekend at ECM29. Thanks to the generous support of a number of sponsors, we're able to broadcast this as a live webfeed; so, even if you can't make it to Rovinj, please check out the full timetable at m where you will also find...

John was invited to give a presentation at SciDataCon 2014 (this is the new incarnation of the CODATA biennial scientific conference). Because of time problems in obtaining a visa, I went instead and gave the presentation, slightly modified to include some of my specific interests. The theme of the ...

Diffraction Data Deposition Working Group Meeting Montreal 11 August 2014 7:30p.m. Present: John R. Helliwell (Chair), Brian McMahon, Marian Szebenyi, Frances C. Bernstein, Herbert J. Bernstein, Loes Kroon-Batenburg, Patrick Mercier, Matt Zimmerman, Kamil F. Dziubek, Marcin Kowiel, Saulius Grazulis...

Video recordings of the presentations made at the Crystallographic Information and Data Management symposium, also held at ECM28, a few days before the DDDWG meeting, are available from YouTube through the link m Links to the individual presentations are provided below: I. Standard information excha...

An Open Forum meeting was held at the 28th European Crystallography Meeting (University of Warwick, 29 August) to continue the process of public consultation that informs the activities of the DDDWG. 15 people were present, including representatives of databases, commercial instrument manufacturers,...

Activities of the IUCr Diffraction Data Deposition Working Group 2011-2013 An interim report as prepared for the programme booklet of the Crystallographic Information and Data Management Symposium , U. Warwick, 25 August 2013 Terms of reference It is becoming increasingly important to deposit the r...

I have just upgraded the Matrix installation from version 4.8.0 to 4.12.2, which has allowed the "Easy Edit interface" also to be upgraded to the latest version. By default, when you try to edit a page now using the /_edit suffix, the editor will start up on the page contents (and not, as ...

Definitely not a legitimate way to express standard uncertainties in CIF, though we're rather embarrassed that checkCIF doesn't flag that as a specific error, and shall look into what can be done to remedy that. _________________________________________________________________________ Brian McMahon ...

Report on the Workshop on Data Diffraction Deposition (DDD) at ECM27 and the preceding DDD Meeting held at the ACA in Boston John R Helliwell, Brian McMahon and Tom Terwilliger The Workshop was held on August 6th 2012 at Bergen University and attracted participants from Europe and the USA, from Uni...